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DAY 3 PPT One

The document outlines a training module on configuring local storage in Windows Server, covering topics such as managing disks, selecting partition formats (MBR and GPT), and file systems (FAT, NTFS, ReFS). It also discusses volume management, RAID configurations, and includes demonstrations for practical application. Key exercises involve creating, resizing, and managing volumes and virtual hard disks.

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DAY 3 PPT One

The document outlines a training module on configuring local storage in Windows Server, covering topics such as managing disks, selecting partition formats (MBR and GPT), and file systems (FAT, NTFS, ReFS). It also discusses volume management, RAID configurations, and includes demonstrations for practical application. Key exercises involve creating, resizing, and managing volumes and virtual hard disks.

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Windows Training

day
Configuring local storage
Module Overview

Managing disks in Windows Server


• Managing volumes in Windows Server
Lesson 1: Managing disks in Windows
Server

Selecting a partition table format


Selecting a disk type
Selecting a file system
Implementing ReFS
Demonstration: Configuring ReFS
Using .vhd and .vhdx file types
• Selecting a disk type
Selecting a partition table format

MBR
• Standard partition table format since the early
1980s
• Supports a maximum of four primary partitions
per drive
• Can partition a disk up to 2 TB

GPT
• GPT is the successor of the MBR partition table
format
• Supports a maximum of 128 partitions per drive
 Use MBR for disks smaller than 2 TB
• Can partition a disk up to 18 exabytes
 Use GPT for disks larger than 2 TB
Selecting a disk type

Basic disks are:


• Initialized for basic storage
• The default storage for the Windows operating
system
Dynamic disks can:
• Be modified without restarting the Windows
system
• Provide several options for configuring volumes

Disk volume requirements include:


• A system volume for hardware-specific files that
are required to start the server
• A boot volume for the Windows operating
system files
Selecting a file system

When selecting a file system, consider the differences


between FAT, NTFS, and ReFS
FAT provides:
• Basic file system
• Partition size limitations
• FAT32 to enable larger disks
• exFAT developed for flash drives
NTFS provides:
• Metadata
• Auditing and journaling
• Security (ACLs and encryption)
ReFS provides:
• Backward compatibility support for NTFS
• Enhanced data verification and error correction
• Support for larger files, directories, and volumes
Implementing ReFS

ReFS has a number of advantages over


NTFS:
• Metadata integrity with checksums
• Expanded protection against data corruption
• Maximizes reliability
• Large volume, file, and directory sizes
• Storage pooling and virtualization
• Redundancy for fault tolerance
• Disk scrubbing for protection against latent disk errors
• Resiliency to corruptions
• Shared storage pools across machines
Demonstration: Configuring ReFS

In this demonstration, you will see how to:


• Retrieve the volume and sector information
for an NTFS volume by using the fsutil
command
• Reformat the NTFS volume as an ReFS volume
• Retrieve the volume and sector information
for the ReFS volume by using the fsutil
command
Using .vhd and .vhdx file types

• Virtual hard disks are files that you can use


the same way as physical hard disks

• You can:
• Create and manage virtual hard disks by using
Disk Management and Diskpart.exe
• Configure .vhd or .vhdx files
• Configure computers to start from the virtual
hard disk
• Transfer virtual hard disks from Hyper-V servers,
and start computers from the virtual hard disk
• Use virtual hard disks as a deployment
technology
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Lesson 2: Managing volumes in Windows
Server

What are disk volumes?


Options for managing volumes
Demonstration: Managing volumes
Extending and shrinking a volume
What is RAID?
• RAID levels
What are disk volumes?

Windows Server 2016 supports the


following volume types:
• Simple
• Spanned
• Striped
• Mirrored
• RAID-5
Options for managing volumes
Options for managing volumes
Options for managing volumes
Options for managing volumes

• Get-disk
• Clear-disk
• Initialize-disk
• Get-volume
• Format-volume
Demonstration: Managing volumes

In this demonstration, you will see how to:


• Create a new volume with Diskpart
• Create a mirrored volume
Extending and shrinking a volume

• You can resize volumes with


Windows Server 2016
• When you want to resize a disk, consider
the following:
• You can extend or shrink NTFS volumes
• You can only extend ReFS volumes
• You cannot resize FAT, FAT32, and exFAT
volumes
• You can shrink a volume only up to immovable
files
• You cannot shrink a volume with bad clusters
What is RAID?

RAID:
• Combines multiple disks into a single logical unit
to provide fault tolerance and performance
benefits
• Provides fault tolerance by using:
• Disk mirroring
• Parity information
• Can provide performance benefits by spreading
disk I/O across multiple disks
• Can be configured using several different levels
• Should not replace server backups
RAID levels

RAID 0
Striped set without parity or mirroring

A1 A2
A3 A4
A5 A6
A7 A8

Disk 0 Disk 1
RAID levels

RAID 1
Mirrored drives

A1 A1
A2 A2
A3 A3
A4 A4

Disk 0 Disk 1
Lab: Configuring local storage

Exercise 1: Creating and managing volumes


Exercise 2: Resizing volumes
• Exercise 3: Managing virtual hard disks
Logon Information

Virtual machines: DC1


SVR1

User name: example.com\Administrato


Password: mcsa@123

Estimated Time: 40 minutes


Module Review and Takeaways

Review Questions
• Best Practices
• Tools

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